JENNIFER CARTER

Soprano Jennifer Carter recently sang the role of Violetta in La Traviata with Opera by Request, where “from the moment she appeared, we believed Carter as a courtesan and bon vivant living under the shadow of her illness.” (Leslie Barcza, barczablog)

This fall Ms. Carter returns to the role of Mimì in a concert performance of La bohème as a part of the Colours of Music Festival in Barrie, and in a concert of highlights of the opera at the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto. She also makes her role debut as Pamina in Mozart’s The Magic Flute with Opera Kitchener.

Roles previously performed include Mimì/La bohème (Opera by Request), Mrs. Gobineau/The Medium (Little Opera Company), Countess Almaviva/Le Nozze di Figaro (Symphony & Opera Academy of the Pacific), Mother & Witch/Hansel & Gretel (U of Manitoba School Tour). She has also performed extended excerpts as Donna Anna/Don Giovanni, Nedda/Pagliacci, Pat Nixon/Nixon in China, Woglinde/Das Rheingold, Fiordiligi/Così fan tutte, and in the title roles of Vanessa and Madama Butterfly.

Ms. Carter earned her M. Mus. degree from the University of Manitoba, where she studied with Tracy Dahl and Mel Braun. She has furthered her studies with the Canadian Operatic Arts Academy, Opera on the Avalon, and Queen of Puddings summer programs. She currently studies privately with Mary Morrison, O.C., in Toronto; and maintains a teaching studio out of her home in the Niagara region.